The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-07-23
AWAITING STATEHOOD.
Three or Four Territories Knocking at
the Door of the Union.
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the Door of the Union.
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WASHINGTON, July 1S.-It il pretty
evident that the next Congress will
not he able to keep the dours Of the
Union locked against the territories.
Dakota, Montana and Washington
have been knocking for long time,
and some of them came pretty near
getting the door open last session.
Now they
ARE KNOCKING AGAIN,
gins its session, and it is pretty evident
that they are going TO he heard this
time. Talks with members of Congress
who are here show a growing DISPOSE
ton to listen to these demands, and it
is pretty safe to say that tho close Of
the FIfsieth Congress will find the list
rot States containing forty common
wealths, perhaps more. The importu-
mites of the Territories have been so
long and we'll sustained that ii does
not seem that Congress can hold ont
much longer. 1t is curious fact that
Congress, during tho past twenty-five
years, has had to be begged aud la
bored with just about so long before i,
viii do anything in this line. Colorado,
the last State TO be admitted, was
struggling for that happy lot twelve
years before she got there. Her first
enabling act was passed and her first
| constitution adopted in 1864, dozen
years before she was finally admitted
by Presidential proclamation. Me-
braska made application 10 Congress
| for an enabling act between two and
| four years before she got fairly in the
| fold in 1867. Kansas held II constilu-
tioual convention, and knocked hard
at the door in 1855, but didn't get in
until 1861, Prior to that time. no
State except Florida had to wait more
than three years from the beginning
Of the agit alton until she was fairly in
the fold, and in most c,sss tho time
spent i'll getting in was but few
months. But now there
ARE EIGHT TERRITORIES
wanting TO come in as States, and
some of them have been asking that
privilege nearly decade. Reports
that the present Administration looks
with favor upon the movement in
Utah in regard to Statehood seem 10
be neasurably true. 1t would not be
surprising in fact if il should turn out
that it had Inspired it in some degree
at least. II it could be said Of this
Administration that during its cxis-
tence and through the efforts Of its lea
ders the greatest evil since slavery,
poiygany was wiped out, and that by
peaceful! methods, it would I've a record
OF which any patty might be proud.
So nobody need he surprised if ii turns
out that the Efforts in this line are
supported by the Administration, pro,
vided the new constitution offered by
the people of Utah proves to "hu,d
water" and seems likely to
EFF'EC'rUA ALLY WIPE OUT pOIItAMy.
True, it would be Democratic State.
and the administration, by supporting
it, would lay Itself open to the charge
that it Was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
but with eXpectant Dakota knock.
ing SO hard at the other door, it seems
that Democratic Utah woul To- fully
offset by Republican Dakota. Then
there is Washington Territory, which
is so close politically that nobody can
tell whether it would become n Demo
cratic or Republican State. So if the
next Congress finds itself compelled to
yield TO the popular .clamor in regard
TO the admission of Territories, as it
seems it must, il will lnd sufficient
| political uncertainty among the aspir-
ants to Statehood TO make the result
deiiciousiy uncertain, and thus give
Hcst to the entire undertaking. II
would not be at all surprising to SEQ
the next Congress at its second session
| admitting four or five or perhaps mo,e
ttinu that, of the waiting territories
as 10 the prospect of any of them
| getting i'll in time to vote
! AT'TiiE NEXT rRrSI DENTAL EI.EtT1oy
which comes only little ov.ra wear
hence, it is not especially brilliant. II
| Is probable that bills will he iptrmIuced
| for the admission us Il State, of every
one of the remaining Territories. eS-
| ceping Alaska, ut the first session.
| but, as the second session would carry
them over bs yond the next Prcsiden-
tai election, il is probable that they
viii be "5!ood orr for the final passage
OF the various acts until the conyen-
ing of tho Congress which meets in
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